I went to hear Gretel Ehrlich talk about her new book, "Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami," tonight at the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Lower Downtown Denver. Ehrlich, a devoted student of Japan, visited the earthquake and tsunami devastated Tohoku coast of Japan several months after it happened, and this book is about her experiences there. It was a horrific disaster, leaving 300,000 people homeless and almost 30,000 dead, and was compounded by the meltdown of a nuclear reactor. The talk was well attended, and I was very surprised to see that so many people in the audience knew each other. Everybody entering the room greeted and hugged the people already there, including the author. One reason was that the author is from Wyoming, and some of her family were in attendance. In addition, I ran into a friend of a friend and learned that many of the people who attended tonight are in the book business. I don't know if they are all fans of the author, or buying autographed copies to resell, or both, but I was amazed that there are still so many people left in the book business. That is good news indeed. Death to Digital Books!
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